Astronomers from the University of Sheffield have found a new ring system in our Solar System The rings are around Quaoar, which is a Pluto-sized dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune Quaoar’s rings ...

An international group of astronomers has found a new ring system around a dwarf planet hailing from the edge of our Solar System. This discovery challenges current theories on the formation of ring ...

Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...